There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

My life is a struggle.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

That’s the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

My life is my argument.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.